As an Iowa kid, I detasseled corn every summer from when I was 12 to 16. 10 hour days, 5 or 6 days a week, in the Iowa heat and humidity. Not saying every ag job for kids is like mine or José Velásquez Castellano's, but it's not that cruel. I'm not sure if I was supplementing my family's income or not, but I sure was paying for things that other more well-off kids had their parents pay for. I'm not arguing for "child labor" but if you grew up in an agricultural community none of this seems that shocking.
Exactly right. I'm very confused by all this because I literally stream music from friends and local bands that I've uploaded to my personal YouTube Music account.
I don't necessarily disagree, but this kind of cynical energy is literally not helping much. It's too easy to piss on personal pet peeves in the tech world while claiming it's a zero sum game with monumentally complex social problems that almost everyone would love to "solve" if they could. It's quite possible to help ease the suffering of others while also being excited about a new JS framework, machine learning, etc.
Something like: Prompt GPT4 with basic rules (in several batches) and have it create JSONL prompt-completion pairs to use as fine-tuning for GPT3. Freeze that model then continue fine-tuning it with a new set of prompt-completion pairs for each adventure module.
Not to mention with swf-to-exe tools like Zinc, I could create portable and lightweight desktop applications without fighting with compilers and build steps. 20 years ago I built a fairly sophisticated program to allow users to load, view, and manipulate 3D objects. Took me a week and I can still run it today. I supposed I could do the same now with JS libraries and Electron, but it's just not the same. We indeed lost something valuable.
Looks like this will be removed in v5. "For example, throttle uses debounce internally. In a project using both methods from the main lodash package, throttle will import the same debounce module as any code that imports debounce directly, so only one copy of debounce will wind up in a webpack bundle."
Sure, but it's a little more complicated than that. A 2015 act of Congress mandated that the Department of Transportation repeal the braking requirement if an analysis showed more costs than benefits. The act was mostly to address high profile oil tanker derailments, shipments which peaked around 2014. The Trump administration concluded, probably mistakenly, that an cost-benefit analysis justified it revocation. Of course there was much lobbying by the railroad and oil industries.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s department has no plans to reinstate an Obama-era rail safety rule aimed at expanding the use of better braking technology, even though a former federal safety official recently warned Congress that without the better brakes.
The Biden administration has had every opportunity to reinstate the safety rule in the past two years.
I asked it to produce a perfect pangram, which uses each letter once and only once. It unsurprisingly couldn't do it despite explicit instructions. It did produce several known examples of pangrams using all 26 letters but didn't seem to have "Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx" memorized.
Early models were loud, but they've released software updates to make it quieter and started switching out fans in later models I believe. I've had mine since July 2022 and don't notice the fans at all for mid to low power games. It kicks on for more processor intensive games but I personally don't find it distracting.
Most people generally don't use their phone or mobile device for these tasks, so an installable application makes sense. I think what OP is talking about is this phenomenon of needing an installed app taking up storage space just for fairly simple tasks the web can handle just fine. Most of the time the installed apps require internet to properly function anyway.
Side trivia: 20 years ago today the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
I quit Facebook in 2010, despite being told I'd need it to keep in contact with anyone in my life. I immediately lost contact with a small network of casual acquaintances. For friends and family, I just started texting, phoning, and emailing them. Stayed in contact just fine. I quit Instagram a few years after that and nothing of value was lost in my opinion. I've deleted and recreated a Twitter account about 7 times since 2007 because nothing else could really replace it fully.
I quit Netflix because I never watch it but immediately resubscribed because my wife was deep into Virgin River and The Great British Bake Off. woops.
Interesting. I consider myself an average developer who picked up Urbit to play with in 2017 (when it was still very rough). I've been happily using it almost everyday for a couple of years now. I mean, it's just a peer-to-peer network built from first principles. That's really kind of it. I guess I don't really deep dive into the inner workings of its address space, OS, or functional programming language, but for an end user like me it works pretty great for distributed communication. I'm not trying to sell anyone on it by any means, but some of the most interesting things I've read have been in Urbit groups.
In 1993 it was all about instant telecommunication coming in the future, which seemed like crazy scifi at the time. Now I think the next horizon is instant simulation. In 30 years, we'll be able to simulate just about anything we want. Instant feature film prompted by your own ideas? You will. Talking to your dead grandma? You will. Assistants that go to work for you? You will. And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T, probably.
"As an academic community, we are committed to a vision of inclusive debate and free and open inquiry."
Which has recently been revealed wasn't possible on Twitter, especially since 2016. Shadow banning, de-trending, and canceling accounts at the behest of government agencies such as the FBI purely on ideological grounds is not a culture of "inclusive debate". Some of it was warranted, much of it wasn't. This is no longer a conspiracy theory, it is fact.
I've kept a daily log of my health, work, activity, etc. since 2010 and was curious about this too. No change at all for me over the past 12 years. I get some kind of mild cold once a year and a major flu-like sickness every 3 years or so. For what it's worth, I personally stopped wearing a mask in May 2021 after getting the covid vaccine. I did not get any covid boosters, but I do get a flu shot each season. Anecdotally, I seem to have not seen any uptick or downturn in my rate of illness, but this season isn't over.
That's difficult to evaluate since "good" is subjective. So is "selling well", to be honest. I assume you mean a game that is reasonably finished and polished and not simply shovelware, but still not getting the sales to be profitable. There are tons. 30 games drop on Steam everyday. Just sort by new and see all the games that any little indie studio would be proud to release but have few sales.
That is fascinating. Can you suggest readings in "population genomics" that have challenged the established historical record? I'm tolerant of divergent opinions yet like to stay grounded in somewhat rigorous methods.
Good point. Reckless behavior may not mean "swerving to save someone else" which is what pulling a lever would be. I struggle with with the Trolley Problem because the pulling of the lever is always intentional.
I'm a big fan of Hancock but also work with professional archeologists (though I am not one myself). I regularly read "kooky" topics as well as established science papers and monographs. To my eye, none of this should be this confounding -- yet it's festering into a culture war battle. Let's all chill out, not take ourselves too seriously, and just fine-tune the epistemic status of entertainment-level Netflix shows like this. Yes, Hancock is highly speculative and isn't doing archeology. He's also not a white supremacist either as many academics claim (the "canceling" part of his gripe). But let's not pretend that there is evidence for Atlantis either. For some reason this particular show is aggravating academics in a way the million Ancient Aliens and UFO shows didn't.
To my eye, they are clearly synthetic elements composited together in Photoshop or similar with a keen artistic, human eye. Doesn't keep it from being amazing, but there's no way these faux film stills are coming straight out of a generator.
> It isn't that we "hate him" as he claims, it is simply that we strongly believe he is wrong.
Then please write up a dispassionate rebuttal citing published findings that dispute his claims. This piece is not that. It's mostly links to smug twitter posts and material that debunks really old "race science" that has nothing to do with Hancock's claims. The author claims scientists have "repeatedly addressed" Hancock's ideas, yet doesn't really provide that material. It feels super lazy and reactionary since most of the "refutation" is to other peoples' ideas not echoed by Hancock. I don't even care if Hancock is wrong or right and I'm not going to die on this hill, but I'm smart enough to take his show at face value as a fun speculative "what if". Sorry, just not buying the white supremacy/race science angle here. Feels like the easy straw man attack.
I grew up playing APBA with my friends and tried to write some automation tools in BASIC on my TRS-80 in Jr. High. A few years ago I wrote a simple Node app to scrape Baseball Reference data and create plausible, reverse engineered Strat-O-Matic cards as PDFs. Sometimes I feel like I enjoy just playing with baseball stats more than actually simulating a baseball game.